This story has been getting a lot of traction in recent days. Supposedly Softbank, a Japanese company that owns Sprint, is in talks with Germany’s Deutsche Telecom, owners of T-Mobile. If the proposed $32 billion merger deal comes to pass, the third and fourth largest wireless carriers in the U.S. will be one. The combined number […]

The conventional wisdom goes that more and more people are ditching cable and satellite TV and taking the streaming video route. Certainly, the growth of Netflix is an example of a company plowing a different road and achieving great success. But it’s largely about having award-winning original shows, such as the dark political thriller, “House of […]

To show you how desperate the media has become when it comes to news about a forthcoming Apple product — any forthcoming product – there is a certain report that indicates Comcast knows something about the next Apple TV. Or maybe not. In an FCC filing designed to explain why it’s a great idea for Comcast and […]

Having followed Apple since the 1980s, I often don’t recognize the company described in some of the articles I read. This has been especially true since the passing of Steve Jobs. The meme is that Apple couldn’t have gone so far without Jobs, and thus his absence means the company is toast. Anything that seems […]